Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Interesting...which critics? All of the reviews of Fischer tend to be very positive.

One thing, though: Fischer really doesn't address the Ozarks per se, since the settlement of the Ozarks came after the 1820's. Of course, the Ulster-Scots/Scots-Irish who settled Appalachia were the majority of settlers into the Ozarks, but as I remember (I'm in St. Louis and away from my library at the moment), he only mentions the Ozarks in passing.

Still, it's a good resource.

T.
You're asking me to dig through my papers from a fourth year honours history course from about ten years ago. By critics, I mean peer reviews, not necessarily antagonists. He put together a great work but it is prone to generalizations. There was something else about stats but I can't remember fully what it was. Something to do with the Fens, I think. It's no reflection on his academic integrity, just another way of looking at the same info. The book is right here as a ready reference, the photocopies of the journals are in a box.
(Actually, you just alerted me to a potential problem, I just checked my drive for my old papers and they're not on this drive. Now I have to check out my older drives to make sure I don't lose them forever.)

Never mind ready reference, I couldn't remember the mountain range that they settled in according to Fischer. I was asking in that sentence but I guess it wasn't clear enough. Appalachians are what I was trying to remember. Thank you for supplying that, and sorry if it sounded misleading.